We arrive in the Peloponnese 🇬🇷

Crossing over to the Peloponnese 

Heading south to the Peloponnese we crossed from the mainland using the Charilaos Trikoupis bridge, one of the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges, I think they must be still paying for the cost of building it as we were shocked to pay 20.30€ for the privilege!
Once we arrived on the Peloponnese,we found it easy to Free camp as it's just the beginning of the season, many of the places have plenty of space to park and the locals don't seem to be at all bothered by you being parked there in your motorhome. The weather just didn't want to improve much - we would have some sunshine for a few hours but then it would cloud over and start to rain again.
The roads in Greece are almost as bad at the potholed roads in Italy, poorly maintained and bumpy. The laid back attitude of the Greek people is reflected in their driving- they overtake on the double unbroken centre lines on the road all the time, they come round blind bends on your side of the road, the wide roads suddenly become extremely narrow when you arrive in a town or village (so much so you wonder if you missed a sign somewhere) and the rules on giving way to the left on roundabouts is a bit shaky, which is how I would describe my nerves after a day on the road! I even woke up in the night and wondered if all our affairs are in order and our insurances paid up!

The little harbour at Diakopto

We pondered briefly about giving up on Greece and heading back to Spain! But only briefly even though the weather refused to improve! After a week in Greece we arrived at a tiny harbour at the back end of nowhere called Agios Andreas and our friends Paul and Janice met us there, we whiled away a stormy afternoon in the one and only taverna catching up on our latest travels since we last saw them in Spain. They had arrived about a week or so before us and were able to give us some good tips on where to visit on the Peloponnese.

Whilst we were there this old Greek guy who lived in a house by the harbour came by the motorhomers parked up and offered 'something to eat' at his house, we had just eaten so we didn't take him up on his offer, but a Swiss couple parked next to us went. When they returned they were highly amused - he had served them up some very dry cooked fish, some greasy chips and a half carafe of cheap wine, a large proportion of the fish was discretely fed to the many cats hanging around. When they offered payment 'Grandpa' as we called him, asked for 39€! Rather a lot!! We had just paid less than 30€ for a delicious meal for 2 in the nearby tarverna - Greek salad, meat, chips and a couple of rounds of drinks - the moral of the story I think is 'Beware of Greeks bearing gifts' 😂

Our area for parking at the harbour Agios Andreas